This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 246 Face to Face Collaboration
After a brief moment of excitement, Li Ming thought of another problem. The security level of such a secret laboratory must not be low.

It is very likely that it is also protected by the power of the "Realm of Eternity". Even if Pierre is qualified to go there, it will be difficult for him to possess the other party's shadow and blend in.

"Tsk..." Thinking of this, he frowned slightly. The power of the "Realm of Eternity" has become a serious obstacle for him, blocking the dimensional crystals and several dimensional life forms.

I must find a way to solve this problem, he murmured to himself, and when he looked up, he saw that Pierre's expression was struggling, as if he was about to wake up from the hypnotic state.

Li Ming was speechless for a while. He picked up the mechanical pocket watch and shook it in front of his eyes. Then the struggling look slowly disappeared.

Then, he asked Pierre about the specific characteristics of the "Eternal Realm".

According to Pierre's answer, the energy shield formed in the "Realm of Eternity" can suppress multiple elemental energy reactions. At the same time, it has its own spatial disorder characteristics and isolates spatial jump capabilities. It can be said to be quite comprehensive.

The more he understood, the more difficult it became for Li Ming.

He glanced at the time and realized that five or six hours had passed since he came out.

"Deyes's work hours are coming to an end. The Torch Organization has reopened the internal network access. He should be making some moves. We should go back first."

Li Ming thought about it and asked Pierre to forget what had just happened, and went to inspect the assembly progress of the warship.

It took more than an hour to go back and forth before Li Ming returned to the shadow of Thunder.

After returning to the room, he turned on the smart terminal and found that the intranet connection permission had been reopened.

I contacted Jesia again and learned that Deyes had left the laboratory half an hour ago.

"I hope it's not too late..." Li Ming's figure shrank back into Lei Ting's shadow, and his movements were already quite skillful.

At the same time, in Deyes' room, he looked solemn, surrounded by multiple virtual screens with a large amount of data streams constantly flushing.

From time to time, new screen pop-ups appear, showing progress bars or red warnings, and then disappear quickly.

"Heh... Cornette has indeed suspected me. He has added a lot of interceptors and data flow tracking programs to the intranet. What a pity..." Deyes sneered.

The Torch Organization’s firewall should not be underestimated, but it was not built by their internal members and was most likely purchased.

The senior hackers within the Torch Organization cannot fully utilize the function of this firewall and can only perform certain detection or interception step by step.

"If it were in my hands, even if there were three more virtual hackers of the same level, they wouldn't be able to break through this firewall. What a pity..." Deyes sneered. For him, it would just take more time.

When the button is clicked, green data streams will fall like a waterfall on the many virtual screens surrounding it, and a visual progress pop-up window will pop up on it.

"I used your own data stream and specially compiled it. It would be strange if you could find any anomalies!"

Deyes sneered, stopped moving, and waited quietly.

But after a moment, the doorbell of the room rang.

His face couldn't help but darken. The makeshift room where he was currently living didn't have any video equipment.

But a Do Not Disturb sign was hung on the door of his room, and Brot was still recuperating, so he probably wouldn't come to see him.

In his mind, there was only one person who knocked on the door despite seeing the "Do Not Disturb" sign.

His face looked rather grim. He stood up and walked to the metal door. He removed the metal sheet covering the peephole and looked inside.

It turned out to be the mechanical body under Qinglong’s command, the short one who looked stupid and silly.

After confirming that it was Qinglong's mechanical body, Deyes's expression softened a little. "It just came to me on its own."

He opened the door with a normal look, and then he heard the stiff voice coming from the machine: "Sir Deyes, the master invites you to discuss the manufacture of the sublimator."

Deyes did not answer immediately, but looked up and down at the mechanical body.

Even though more than ten days had passed, he still found it hard to imagine that this little guy could unleash a lethality comparable to that of an A-level life form.

It may look insignificant, but in fact it has already left many small civilizations helpless.

"Who is your master?"

"Master Mechanic Qinglong..." Lei Ting responded stiffly.

The standard replied coldly, but the answer was a disguised identity. Deyes nodded secretly, and then continued to ask tentatively: "Will you follow your master's orders unconditionally?"

"of course."

"What are your master's orders?"

Lei Ting repeated: "Invite Mr. Deyes to discuss matters related to the manufacture of the sublimator."

Li Ming, who had already escaped into Deyes's shadow, had a strange look in his eyes, not knowing what this guy was doing.

"But I'm having some problems right now and can't go." After Deyes said that, the Thunder were ready to turn around and leave.

Deyes said hastily, "Would you be willing to help me solve these problems in order to fulfill your master's orders?"

Lei Ting paused, and his mechanical pupils turned as if they had crashed.

Deyes smiled. Most of the machines made by mechanics have this problem. The underlying logic code must be based on their own commands as the highest standard.

Even though most civilizations have strict laws on armed machines, they require that instructions such as obeying the law and not harming people be embedded in the logic code.

For the Great Mechanic, there are ways to circumvent these treaties, and it is impossible to let other instructions take priority over the instruction of "unconditionally obey the Creator's orders."

However, this kind of instruction can easily become a vulnerability for some mechanical bodies whose logical codes are not well written.

If everything is based on fulfilling the Creator's orders, then it would go against some other logic.

"Okay." Lei Ting responded quickly, "But I need to ask the master's opinion first."

Deyes' smile froze. The logic of this mechanical body worked better than he imagined.

He thought for a moment, then said, "I've thought about it and I really can't go. But please take this thing to your master."

He returned to the room, took out a piece of metal only the size of a fingernail, and handed it to Lei Ting.

Lei Ting turned around and left as usual. After turning the corner, he picked up the metal block and looked at it, muttering, "Something's wrong..."

"What on earth does this guy want to do?" Li Ming watched secretly, not quite understanding.

After watching Lei Ting turn and leave, Deyes quickly closed the door and closed the peephole again, with a hint of anticipation on his face.

Returning to the coverage of the distorted stance, he waved his hand, and all the virtual screens with surging data streams turned to one side, and several new windows appeared.

"Let me see what level of logic this mechanical body has." Deyes was eager to try. Several jumping dots appeared on the blank virtual screen, as if looking for a signal.

Soon, a large amount of data appeared on it. Deyes took a look and seemed extremely surprised, "It's not a closed link, Qinglong, you are so confident." In the shadow behind him, Li Ming finally understood what Deyes was doing. He actually wanted to crack the underlying logic code of Thunder.

"What a wonderful idea... This is my mechanical guard." Li Ming laughed, but then he thought that there was nothing wrong with Deyes's approach.

This is also the disadvantage of the mechanical body. If you encounter a highly skilled hacker, the mechanical body will become someone else's toy.

Of course, there are solutions. The closed link mentioned by Deyes is one of them.

Once the underlying logic code of the mechanical body is encapsulated, the mechanical body will be completely turned into an isolated island and can only be connected to the outside world through lines.

In this case, the difficulty of cracking the system increases a lot, but the disadvantage is that the transmission of instructions is very time-consuming.

It is generally only used on advanced combat machines.

In essence, his mechanical guards are no longer simple intelligent programs, so there is no need for closed links.

After discovering that it was not a closed link, Deyes became even more excited and operated quickly. The metal block was obviously the signal intermediary.

"In the form of analog signals, it connects to the intelligent program and reconstructs the underlying code..." Li Ming could barely understand what Deyes was doing and was quite interested.

"So simple?" Deyes was surprised during the operation. "There's not even a virtual data wall. The signal screening mechanism is shockingly poor. The simplest sixteen-track signal can break through..."

He pulled out a screen with neatly arranged logic codes on it.

Deyes looked at him in wonder: "Well, it's a very common logic code, as neat as a textbook..."

"In that case, let's perform a logical loop blast." Deyes twitched his lips. He was already familiar with this kind of cracking. He imported the external file and pressed a button to start executing the established program.

Immediately, a visual progress bar popped up on the virtual screen.

"It's so easy. Could it be that Qinglong really just treated them as test subjects and didn't take many protective measures?"

Deyes frowned, thinking back to his discussion with Benny the Great Mechanic.

They had discussed the two combat machines over the past ten days and each had their own conclusions.

Benny and Jessia both believed that these two combat machines were just experimental prototypes and were not perfect in many aspects.

After Qinglong, more complete combat machines will inevitably be created.

"Just let him be an experiment." Deyes didn't mind.

After thinking for a moment, he looked up at the visual progress bar again, his face slightly stiff, "Huh?"

The progress bar remains motionless at 0%.

"How could this happen?" Deyes frowned. According to the difficulty just now, the overwriting progress should not be so slow...

Puzzled, he pulled up the progress details, stared at them for a while, then suddenly stood up with a look of astonishment on his face: "What... is this!?"

The program he created was still running, and the overwriting program of logic loop blasting and underlying code reconstruction was continuously transmitted to the control center of the mechanical body through analog signals.

Try to rewrite the logic code that is organized to a certain extent.

But there was a problem. His program data was like a drop in the ocean. Although it was sent in, it did not cause any reaction at all.

This unusual situation instantly alerted Deyes, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

Either it is blocked, or it is killed by the program, or it is successfully overwritten.

This was not the first time he had performed a similar crack. Generally speaking, there were only three possibilities:
But now he saw the fourth possibility and had no reaction.

It's like a black hole that accepts everyone.

"What went wrong? Is this just a disguise of the virtual hub?" Deyes tried to find an explanation.

After a moment, his face turned cloudy and he decided to go for a viral chainsaw blast.

Many of the virus programs he created were deployed there.

Some virus programs, if leaked, can even cause a network paralysis in a small civilization.

However, as Deyes was full of anticipation, the situation just now happened again, and there was still no reaction. So he accepted everything that came his way.

Deyes had a confused look on his face. What kind of virtual center could have this level of stress resistance?

Then, he looked at the logic code that was still running, and suddenly he felt infinite fear in his heart, and unspeakable panic instantly swept through his body.

Even though he had seen the two combat robots fighting against Brot before, he was still more shocked.

But now it was completely different. This was what he was best at, and he could even be said to be proud of it, but it didn't cause any ripples in front of the other party.

He would even rather Qinglong come to him angrily right now and ask him what he had done, rather than the current silence and no response.

Those seemingly simple, regular and conventional logic codes are like an unshakable Great Wall of Steel, engulfing all enemies.

"It's the ghost program!"

"A ghost program is running that I can't detect." Deyes's eyes twitched and veins popped out on his temples. "The virtual data technology is so amazing. Who on earth is this guy?"

"What's wrong with him?" Li Ming looked at Deyes, who looked terrified and pale, gritting his teeth and curling up in a ball.

At this moment, Deyes even felt regretful. If he had known that the other party was so mysterious, he should not have regarded Qinglong as an enemy.

But it was too late to say anything now, and the grudge between the two had already been formed.

Unless I apologize now, no...apology is not enough.

To be fair, if it were him, an enemy would suddenly come to apologize.

The first thing he thought of was definitely not to make peace, but "There is a trick!"

His face was uncertain, and he finally reacted. He began to quickly erase all traces of his attack, causing the signal program in the metal block to self-destruct, leaving only the camouflaged data.

He looked unhappy because he hadn't reached the end of his rope yet. At least this guy still had to commit himself to the Torch Organization for the time being. He couldn't completely turn against him and didn't know his plans.

Perhaps, he also bought this ghost program instead of writing it himself, he comforted himself.

It's not that he is without a chance. He opens the previous data pop-up window again. A large number of screens disappear, and finally only one is left. Three small black dots are jumping in sequence.

Finally, the signal was connected, and the three dots turned into a rippling sound line, with a clear and calm voice: "Master Mechanic - Deyes."

"I actually contacted Asmara..." Li Ming behind him was secretly surprised. At the same time, he switched on the [Monitoring Pendant] that he had not used for a long time. With the help of its ability [Record], he could record the scenes happening around him in 360 degrees.

(End of this chapter)